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Title: Cheddar boilers -- gas or spirit fired please ?
Post by: trelawney on December 09, 2020, 11:29:50 am

Would be interested to know if Cheddar ever produced spirit fired boilers please, as I am only aware of gas ones


Thanks


Trelawney

Title: Re: Cheddar boilers -- gas or spirit fired please ?
Post by: rhavrane on December 09, 2020, 02:39:38 pm

Bonjour,


To my opinion, gas is much more safe, easy to manage and clean than spirit, why would you use spirit ?

Title: Re: Cheddar boilers -- gas or spirit fired please ?
Post by: Geoff on December 09, 2020, 03:24:13 pm

I believe they only ever made gas boilers


Geoff

Title: Re: Cheddar boilers -- gas or spirit fired please ?
Post by: KNO3 on December 09, 2020, 03:45:52 pm

Trelawney, all Cheddar boilers were for gas burners, with one exception: the vertical Pipit boiler, which was meant for both gas and solid fuel tablets (to be burned in a tray). I am attaching an old catalogue picture where the Pipit boiler is pictured. It has a rather large opening at the bottom to allow the insertion of a burner tray, but I haven't seen this tray pictured in the catalogues.